Off Panel: A Comics Interview Podcast · SKTCHD

Slip and Slide with Ethan S. Parker and Griffin Sheridan

June 16, 2025·1 hr 29 min·5 clips

Ethan had a panic attack on release day because their first comic felt so personal and exposed.

The anniversary is there, but nobody makes it heavy. David Harper opens by noting ten years of Off Panel and thanking listeners and supporters, then gets back to the kind of comics talk the show does best. Ethan S. Parker and Griffin Sheridan come in with plenty happening: Kill Your Darlings, upcoming Marvel, IDW, Boom Studios, Image Comics, and an unnamed Distillery project with Bob Quinn. Still, the episode never feels like a press stop. They find out right before recording that they are the tenth-anniversary guests, which gives the start a loose, slightly funny energy. From there, the conversation settles into the strange way podcasting became their back door into comics. Parker and Sheridan do not dress it up as destiny. They talk about working around Ryan Stegman, Donny Cates, and other creators, then slowly realizing the show was nudging them toward what they wanted all along. The money was not the point. Early on, it was about being near the work, meeting people, and figuring out how to admit that they wanted help making comic books. That part lands because it is both awkward and funny. They get ready to tell Stegman they care more about making comics than getting paid, only to find out he already knew. It still takes time. Free podcast editing becomes a modest but real opening into relationships, advice, and eventually published work. Harper gives the story room. The episode feels like a career conversation shaped by memory, shop talk, and the plain discomfort of asking for a way in. It is not a legend. It is people explaining how ambition can sit inside enthusiasm for a long time before anyone says the quiet part out loud.

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A warm anniversary interview that turns comics backstory into a quietly satisfying origin tale.

Off Panel uses its 10th anniversary to circle back to a comics-world origin story, with Ethan S. Parker and Griffin Sheridan tracing how podcasting, editing, and the right conversations slowly opened into making books of their own.

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Press play for a comics interview that traces how podcast editing on the side of the mic nudged Ethan S. Parker and Griffin Sheridan toward making comics.

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